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Cereb Cortex Commun. 2020;1(1):tgaa033. doi: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa033. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

Associations between Amygdala-Prefrontal Functional Connectivity and Age Depend on Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status.

Cerebral cortex communications

Bruce Ramphal, Mariah DeSerisy, David Pagliaccio, Elizabeth Raffanello, Virginia Rauh, Gregory Tau, Jonathan Posner, Rachel Marsh, Amy E Margolis

Affiliations

  1. New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
  2. Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA.
  3. Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

PMID: 32984815 PMCID: PMC7503474 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa033

Abstract

Although severe early life stress has been shown to accelerate the development of frontolimbic resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC), less is known about the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage, a prolonged and multifaceted stressor. In a cross-sectional study of 127 participants aged 5-25, we examined whether lower neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES; measured by Area Deprivation Index and neighborhood poverty and educational attainment) was associated with prematurely reduced amygdala-ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) RSFC. We further tested whether neighborhood SES was more predictive than household SES and whether SES effects on connectivity were associated with anxiety symptoms. We found reduced basolateral amygdala-vmPFC RSFC at earlier ages in participants from more disadvantaged neighborhoods; this effect was unique to neighborhood SES and absent for household SES. Furthermore, this reduced connectivity in more disadvantaged youth and increased connectivity in more advantaged youth were associated with less anxiety; children who deviated from the connectivity pattern associated with their neighborhood SES had more anxiety. These results demonstrate that neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with accelerated maturation of amygdala-vmPFC RSFC and suggest that the pathophysiology of pediatric anxiety depends on a child's neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics. Our findings also underscore the importance of examining SES effects in studies of brain development.

© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press.

Keywords: anxiety; brain development; fMRI; functional connectivity; stress acceleration

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